{"id":784474,"date":"2026-08-21T10:45:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T10:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/784474\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T10:45:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T10:45:32","slug":"rockies-aim-to-stop-slide-in-matchup-with-the-guardians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/784474\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockies aim to stop slide in matchup with the Guardians"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cleveland Guardians<\/a> (62-66, third in the AL Central) vs. Colorado Rockies<\/a> (50-77, fifth in the NL West)<\/p>\n

Denver; Friday, 8:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Guardians: Joey Cantillo (9-7, 3.80 ERA, 1.44 WHIP, 139 strikeouts); Rockies: Tanner Gordon<\/a> (0-3, 5.55 ERA, 1.44 WHIP, 62 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Guardians -160, Rockies +133; over\/under is 11 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Colorado Rockies look to end a three-game skid when they play the Cleveland Guardians.<\/p>\n

Colorado is 50-77 overall and 27-35 at home. The Rockies have the third-best team slugging percentage in the majors at .418.<\/p>\n

Cleveland has a 62-66 record overall and a 31-32 record on the road. The Guardians have the fourth-ranked team ERA in the AL at 3.79.<\/p>\n

The matchup Friday is the first meeting of the season between the two clubs.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jake McCarthy<\/a> has 26 doubles, seven triples and 13 home runs for the Rockies. Cole Carrigg<\/a> is 10 for 42 with five doubles and six RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Chase DeLauter<\/a> has 22 doubles, a triple, 13 home runs and 57 RBIs for the Guardians. Jo Adell<\/a> is 8 for 34 with three doubles, three home runs and 11 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rockies: 4-6, .224 batting average, 5.93 ERA, outscored by 15 runs<\/p>\n

Guardians: 4-6, .237 batting average, 3.31 ERA, outscored opponents by two runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rockies: Hunter Goodman: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Sean Sullivan<\/a>: 15-Day IL (undisclosed), McCade Brown<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Kyle Freeland<\/a>: day-to-day (neck), Tyler Freeman<\/a>: 10-Day IL (lumbar), Jose Quintana: 60-Day IL (elbow), Kyle Karros<\/a>: 7-Day IL (concussion), Kris Bryant: 60-Day IL (back), Welinton Herrera<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Chase Dollander: 60-Day IL (elbow), Pierson Ohl: 60-Day IL (elbow), RJ Petit: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Guardians: Chase DeLauter: day-to-day (hamstring), Rhys Hoskins: 10-Day IL (back), Shawn Armstrong: 60-Day IL (leg), Slade Cecconi: 15-Day IL (arm)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleveland Guardians (62-66, third in the AL Central) vs. Colorado Rockies (50-77, fifth in the NL West) Denver;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[5,135,51,2565,47392,52,75686,538,3917,1022,39318,19,42377,4,39325,7169,7903,56859],"class_list":["post-784474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-guardians","tag-baseball","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-clevelandguardians","tag-cole-carrigg","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-event_preview","tag-guardians","tag-jake-mccarthy","tag-kyle-freeland","tag-kyle-karros","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mccade-brown","tag-mlb","tag-sean-sullivan","tag-tanner-gordon","tag-tyler-freeman","tag-welinton-herrera"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117133097264655004","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}